Word: poeticizing
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...band's laudably gritty feminist outlook isn't more creatively realized, however. Many of the songs on Dig Me Out feature lyrics that are either too abstract to have much impact or too obvious to have much poetic resonance. The dull Heart Factory, for example, is about--duh--a factory that makes hearts: "Now you can program how you feel before you walk out the door." It doesn't take Deep Blue to figure out that that metaphorical construct is a yawner...
However, it was O'Reilly's performance as Jim O'Connor, the outsider, the "emissary of reality," that packed a real surprise. Right from his first entrance he exuded a breezy normality that contrasted sharply with Tom's poetic restleness, Amanda's strenuous spirits, and Laura's recessiveness. Yet Jim's own history is tinged with a different kind of pathos--that of the high school hero who simply "slowed down" after graduating. O'Reilly deftly depicted the character's undaunted narcissism (which ends up huring Laura badly), yet also made one feel the something inherently likeable and charming that...
...editorials in this week's newspapers will no doubt wax poetic on the meaning of Deep Blue's victory and what it portends for the sorry fate of modern man. The work of our hands has conquered us, they will say; our own successes will yet come back to haunt and destroy us. Human genius will be eulogized as nothing more than a complicated algorithm that was waiting to be decoded...
Part of the richness of A Midsummer Night's Dream is that it is constructed of many disparate elements: it is equal parts poetic enchantment, serious themes, erotic play and broad belly laughs. The Hyperion players understand the importance of balancing these themes, and execute each level of the play with energy and finesse, making the result far more than the sum of its parts...
...professional poetic activity at Harvard is flourishing, it's less clear that the student body feels deeply connected to the subject...